NEIL GAIMAN


Hate for Sale

Hate for sale. All the very best

Hate for sale. Vintage stuff.

Do my cries excite your interest?

Lovely hate. Your life is rough.

Buy my hate. You’ll come right back for more.

Hate for sale. Enough to start a war.

Hate the rich, the brown, the black, the poor.

Hate is clean. And hate will make you sure.

Hate for sale. You’ll feel superior.

Hate for sale. You’ll make the news.

Hate the families who come here fleeing war.

Hate the gay, the trans, the new, the Jews.

Don’t need to care who you detest,

hate makes you feel a whit less scared,

to know your people are the best

and burn to ashes all the rest

who will not face the real test

but showed up naked, unprepared

to be sent back, or drowned, or hurled

back into the abyss. Your world

will be so safe, so clean, so great.

And all you needed was some hate.

Hate for sale. All the very best

Hate for sale. Vintage stuff.

Do my cries excite your interest?

Hate for sale. Never enough.

NEIL GAIMAN is an award-winning author of books, graphic novels, short stories, and films for all ages. His titles include Norse Mythology, The Graveyard Book, Coraline, The View from the Cheap Seats, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neverwhere, and the Sandman series of graphic novels, among other works. His fiction has received Newbery, Carnegie, Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Eisner awards. The film adaptation of his short story “How to Talk to Girls at Parties” and the second season of the critically acclaimed, Emmy-nominated television adaptation of his novel American Gods will be released in 2018. Born in the UK, he now lives in the United States and is a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for Refugees.